A racing car driver has taken on a cheetah in an extraordinary drag stunt ahead
of the Formula E season - and the car won by a whisker.
Techeetah driver Jean-Eric Vergne , 27, challenged the world’s fastest land mammal
in his all-electric Formula E car - with both capable of reaching 60mph in as
little as three seconds.
But in a tight race on a remote airstrip in Western Cape, South Africa, the electric
car beat the animal by a matter of millimetres.
The film was released last night to raise awareness of the threat of climate change
to animals such as cheetahs ahead of next week’s UN Environment Assembly.
With cheetahs under threat, the film was shot in conjunction with Animal Issues
Matter, Cheetah Outreach and Endangered Wildlife Trust.
Vergne said: “There are only around 7,000 cheetahs still living in the wild and
we have a strong desire to raise awareness for the main threats they face, such
as illegal trade of cubs for pets, loss of prey due to habitat loss and fragmentation aggravated by climate change.”
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ビデオ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-9oFxYFODE
